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Verlag: London printed: and are to be sold by T. Varnam and J. Osborne at the Oxford Arms in Lombard street R. Halsey in St.Michael's Church-Porch J. Brotherton at the Black Bull in Cornhil and Jonas Brown at the Black Swan without Temple Bar, 1717
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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12mo, engraved frontispiece and pp. xii, 220; frontispiece rather soiled and laid down; else a good copy, in contemporary calf, spine gilt (slightly worn, but sound). First edition. A poetical miscellany for young readers, by James Greenwood (1683?-1737), who at this point was a teacher at a boarding school in Woodford, Essex. In 1721 he became a master at St. Paul's School in London, where he remained until his death; he published a number of popular grammars, vocabularies, and other pedagogical works. Included here are passages from Katherine Philips, Milton, Dryden, Cowley, Waller, Denham, Prior, Etherege, Isaac Watts, and Swift, along with a number of occasional poems by unidentified hands, presumably those 'never before printed'. The final poems go back further into poetical history, with poems by Spenser and Chaucer. At the end is a short section of notes, and a 38-page alphabetical index of difficult words. The dedication is to nine young ladies, very likely former pupils, all the daughters of influential men such as Sir Richard Child and Sir Caesar Child, who were Essex gentlemen, and Peter Godfrey, MP for the city of London. Case 304; Alston III, 503. The same sheets were reissued in 1722 and 1731 as the supposed second and third editions as might be expected, each is progressively rarer than the last.